Unboxing: Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Adventure Kit
April 1, 2015 by dignity
Justin and Sam venture up the river as they unpack the Adventure Kit for the Iron Kingdoms Unleashed role-playing game from Privateer Press.
Unleashed explores the western lands of Immoren where monsters are heroes who can eat their way through foes and use what's left for vital resources on their journey.
You can get Unleashed: An Introduction to Savagery as a free PDF from the Drive Through RPG website HERE.
Which character will you choose?
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I think what your are confusing @dignity , is the game falling into chaos, and “players having a sense of agency”. What PP do well with the pregen adventures is provide hooks, and room, for setting exploration, while also providing a good framework to drive the plot and narrative along. Having a group just go completely off plot is not ideal. An RPG is not about the GM vs the Players, it is about collectively telling a good story. My big advice to people want to run IKRPG is to use the models for fight scenes, and otherwise, leave them… Read more »
Oh and relevant, Unleashed would be perfect to run a IKRPG Western style story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQAhVJfrrn4&index=13&list=PLvbzbyh1fI5pLyaTkI0kqbSIvokvKTxOs
I wish Wizards had added minis and maps to their 5e DnD as Privateer steeling the edge here in terms of initial player immersion. Fantasy Flight like wise produce good introduction sets for their Star Wars RPGs.
Another good unboxing video, am I tempted? On this occasion probably not but thats more a time and investment issue as will stick with Warmachine for my wargaming.
I will say, IKRPG is a nice way of dabbling with other factions, when you say want to paint something different from another faction, but don’t want to commit. IKRPG gives you nice excuses to diversify your collection (really good if it just means buying more mercs and hordes).